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Warn of recording in progress when attempting to restart or shut down PC?
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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1283873" data-attributes="member: 141969"><p>I am not a Windows expert, but my understanding is that it is possible for an application to tell Windows that the application wants to receive notification messages when the system is about to shutdown, hibernate, or sleep. </p><p></p><p>When a shutdown message is received, the application is supposed to stop processing in an orderly fashion, and then tell Windows that shutdown can proceed. The problem is that a badly-behaved application might fail to tell Windows to proceed with the shutdown. So there is a timeout associated with the shutdown message -- if the application does not respond within this timeout (60 seconds, perhaps), Windows continues with shutdown anyway. The upshot is that an application cannot <em>prevent</em> shutdown. So the onus is on the user to notice that a recording is in progress, and not initiate shutdown.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The red dot in the system tray is a good solution for this problem, although I would extend this to a yellow dot if a recording is about to start within the next "n" seconds (where "n" should be configurable by the user to a value within the range 1 to 1000 seconds).</p><p></p><p>As far as I know, no such utility exists to display the red dot for MP. Perhaps someone with the necessary programming skills would be interested in writing one?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Start the MP client and see if a red dot is displayed on the "Home" panel. Most/all MP1 skins do this, but I don't know whether MP2 skins do.</p><p></p><p>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1283873, member: 141969"] I am not a Windows expert, but my understanding is that it is possible for an application to tell Windows that the application wants to receive notification messages when the system is about to shutdown, hibernate, or sleep. When a shutdown message is received, the application is supposed to stop processing in an orderly fashion, and then tell Windows that shutdown can proceed. The problem is that a badly-behaved application might fail to tell Windows to proceed with the shutdown. So there is a timeout associated with the shutdown message -- if the application does not respond within this timeout (60 seconds, perhaps), Windows continues with shutdown anyway. The upshot is that an application cannot [i]prevent[/i] shutdown. So the onus is on the user to notice that a recording is in progress, and not initiate shutdown. The red dot in the system tray is a good solution for this problem, although I would extend this to a yellow dot if a recording is about to start within the next "n" seconds (where "n" should be configurable by the user to a value within the range 1 to 1000 seconds). As far as I know, no such utility exists to display the red dot for MP. Perhaps someone with the necessary programming skills would be interested in writing one? Start the MP client and see if a red dot is displayed on the "Home" panel. Most/all MP1 skins do this, but I don't know whether MP2 skins do. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]
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